Greetings, I am trying to solve the problem of false motion alarms using Node-Red, and one of the ways I want to do that is with locally hosted AI. This is my use case. I live on a farm, and have experienced four burglaries this year. We lost chainsaws, brush cutters, spanner sets, power tools, t…

I've never bothered to do visual presence detection, never needed it so not sure I can help with that side of things. Though I know that people are doing good stuff just with Raspberry Pi's so your server is probably over powered. :grinning: Some questions around security though, more my thing. It …

(Not to confuse the subject.) There is/was a recent thing I saw on youtube of a small board for presence detection that can detect you breathing. Using microwaves. It is cheap. It is better at detecting people rather than false positives. But (Sod's law) I can't find the link. This is one I ju…

Hi @TotallyInformation , thanks for your feedback. If it matters, I'm in the wilds of Limpopo, in South Africa. I'll try to keep the conversation related to Node-RED and AI, but I hear you on a lot of your security considerations. I also hear you that AI categorisation won't be perfect, but it does…

Hi @Trying_to_learn , thank you, yes, those are mmwave sensors, and there's probably a conversation to be had elsewhere on those. I have four of them sitting in a box, and this a perfect use case. The bugger for me is all my sensors came with a 1.25mm pitch header, which is tiiiiiny. Can't find a br…

Can i suggest that you simplify a lot of this for yourself. Change your Lenovo (or get a 2nd one) to use Docker and deploy Frigate - purchase a cheap USB Tensor PU - i use the Coral USB unit which is about $150/AUD and uses Next to no power and CPU on the host box. You use Frigate to do the catego…

[image] no_mpimpi: If it matters, I'm in the wilds of Limpopo, in South Africa Seeing as you are in SA - why not get a Boerboel and solve the problem at the source. Our boy was the son of a SA Champion - ours was 75Kg - his Father was 92Kg !! We were told a story by a South African breeder …

@no_mpimpi You seem to have some stuff to start experimenting with. I give you my story and what I use today. Since years there are available libraries you can use in a local computer. Wether you would define them as AI or not, well, I think you can. They are trained on real data and learned from …

I set myself the task of building a system using the least expensive (but still reliable) components I could find in terms of outdoor object detection. I have been "testing" a few Raspberry Pi Zero 2 systems (with RPi cameras). That is all the hardware I am using. The firmware is Python running Ten…

The best way to get decent AI on low spec hardware like Raspberry Pi, is with the Coral TPU AI co-processor, it is very good with MobilenetSSD_v2. It costs ~$60 in its USB3 versions (using USB2 will cut down your frame rate considerably) and about $30 in an "M.2" form factor, but few of the IOT cl…

Let's discuss how we might use AI to detect people in stills, for low CPU users like me

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dceejay 14 August 2024 17:11 6

You may well have found several of the older projects already on here age - AI enhanced video security system with Node-RED controller/viewer and Standalone Raspberry Pi Security Camera with AI "person detection" for example. Many of the folk that appear in those threads are still very active here so have probably got newer and better setups in use already.

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Let's discuss how we might use AI to detect people in stills, for low CPU users like me

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